New Government laws to deal with the legacy of the Northern Ireland Troubles have had the effect of retraumatising victims, a court has been told.
Beginning a legal challenge to the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act at Belfast High Court, barrister John Larkin KC also said that a new commission which will take over responsibility for thousands of unsolved deaths would be the “only show in town” for victims but that its architecture was “inadequate” and “defective”.
